E.B. White: A Biography - Softcover

Elledge, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393303055 ISBN 13: 9780393303056

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986

Synopsis

“A splendid exercise in scholarship and literary analysis―and fun to read.” ―“New and Recommended,” New York Times Book Review

Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little; the White of “Strunk and White”; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing The New Yorker’s first thirty years. Included are some fifty photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Trumpet of the Swan', and 'Stuart Little'; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing 'The New Yorker's' first thirty years. Included are some photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles.

About the Author:

Scott Elledge was Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University. He was the author of E. B. White: A Biography and Wider than the Sky: Poems Selected for Young Readers. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost, Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays, and Milton’s "Lycidas": An Approach to Criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0393303055
• ISBN 13: 9780393303056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420